Thanks to comrades at @cailesil.bsky.social for inviting us to connect the legal responses to the genocide in Gaza with our own research. It was an important space to identify the possibilities the law might entail for liberation. #ESIL2025

@juanauz.bsky.social explains how the #ICJ and #IACtHR climate opinions forge a blueprint for climate justice together, linking state responsibility, human rights, and reparations, establishing the "groundwork for a new phase of climate litigation.”🌎⚖️ voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-legal-co...

Is there any complementarity between the ICJ's and the IACtHR's advisory opinions on climate change? I argue there is, specifically on attribution, causation, and remedies, albeit from specific approaches. Thanks to @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and a shoutout to the symposium organizers!

“Capital is a process of abstract violence to the materiality of the real world.” - @matthuber.bsky.social

Yes, the ICJ Advisory Opinion is the hot topic, but don't forget about human rights law! For insights on the Inter-American Court’s AO on climate emergency, listen to our chat with comrade @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on #CalledtotheBar. Thanks to @djag2.bsky.social for this brilliant podcast!

The ICJ just opened the floodgates for international climate litigation. Now is the time when every single climate-vulnerable state must file a lawsuit against the imperialist fossil fuels axis, namely the US, the UK, OPEC countries, Norway, etc. A new dawn for climate reparations!

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance | by Juan Auz

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

Folks are excited about the groundbreaking Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion. It declares that the prohibition of significant environmental harm is jus cogens. However, do you know what other prohibition is also a jus cogens norm and has been for a long time? Genocide! How is that going?

The Inter-American Court just issued its advisory opinion on the climate emergency, and it is PATHBREAKING! It recognizes the rights: - to a safe climate - of Nature - And environmental protection as jus cogens! Europe: No to a right to a healthy environment, and we are complicit in genocide 🫠

now in material form

“Replacing UN agencies with a private foundation and a private security firm further signals the political reframing of Gaza as a site outside the normal rules of international law.” Thanks, Julia, for such an eloquent and thorough analysis of Israel’s attempts at outsourcing its obligations!

ICRC's Mirjana Spoljaric: Palestinians in Gaza have been stripped of human dignity.

24/🔥The judges have clearly established that the civil responsibility of fossil fuel majors can be engaged in the context of climate related harms. 🎉Here is the legal precedent that the #ClimateJustice had been awaiting - with significance well beyond Germany!

Save the date: Fanon Today: Contemporary Struggles and Theoretical Perspectives International Symposium Berlin, July 22-23, 2025 organized by @vethompson.bsky.social, @raulzelik.bsky.social & me

Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death. Israel and the U.S. are starving Gaza to death.

📃 @juanauz.bsky.social analyzes the IACtHR’s landmark ruling holding Ecuador internationally responsible for violations against the Tagaeri & Taromenane. The judgment advances Indigenous rights and frames the precautionary principle as a justiciable obligation. voelkerrechtsblog.org/precaution-a...

I’m happy to share my insights on the Tagaeri and Taromenane v. Ecuador case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. I analyze the Court's application of the precautionary principle and its potential ripple effects. Thank you @voelkerrechtsblog.org for the space and the editorial support.

i just head from a lil birdie (@pashukanist.bsky.social) that a new book (Rob insists on calling it a pamphlet but if it looks like a book and reads like a book) offering a Marxist analysis of the ongoing struggle in Palestine is about to drop www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Exactly this! Climate activists who refuse to integrate anti-genocide and anti-imperialist dimensions in their political discourse and praxis because “it is unrelated” are not safe from fascism. Saving the planet without liberating Palestine is likening gardening to Ecology.

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

After repeatedly violating every single commitment under the ceasefire, Israel is now fully resuming the genocide of the already destroyed Gaza concentration camp. The world is watching. History will remember who stood on the sidelines of this unspeakable atrocity.

Spirituality without class struggle and anti-imperialism is just alienation.

More genocidal statements from Israeli ministers: Netanyahu Minister: 'Only Solution for Gaza Is to Empty It of Gazans,' God Sent Us Trump to Build Settlements archive.ph/B04pB

This statement is quite discomforting. It is concerning that the organizers of the ESIL2025 conference at FU, the university that censored Albanese and Weizman’s talk, suggested that the censored event was “antisemitic.” The statement is silent on that tactic of silencing. Will FU censor again?

THE HAGUE GROUP 🔴 As Israeli tanks roll into the West Bank, Presidents 🇨🇴 Gustavo Petro, 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa, 🇲🇾 Anwar Ibrahim, and Chair Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla explain why they’ve formed The Hague Group to curtail Israel's violations of international law.

If you think leftist rebels are political absentees, meet Leonidas Iza, an Indigenous Marxist who fared quite well in the recent Ecuadorian elections. He chairs the National Indigenous Confederation and led the 2019 strikes against neoliberal austerity. He wrote a materialist account of that event.

😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻 The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2! We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May! ✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 brave Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story last year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes & cities. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO—in theaters now!

“So, a political ecology of adaptation first must carefully critique how many adaptation schemes are really violent recapitulations of the capitalist conditions that produced the problem in the first place.” - Paul Robbins @earthfutures.bsky.social

If decision-makers are not convinced or moved by arguments about the obscenity of climate-induced pain and extinction, then maybe asset losses might persuade them. Or they might be lured by those who have a way to render the crisis profitable.

Amnesty International finally confirmed what many have been saying since Israel’s annihilation campaign against Palestinian life began. Let’s not forget that this is compelling evidence that must be considered by those States that are aiding and abetting the perpetration of this heinous crime.

“Land is threatened by the way that we use and manage it all over the world, and human activities are the main driver behind land degradation,” says PIK scientist Julia Tomalka, author of the UN-report on Land #degradation, published ahead of #COP16Riyadh by UNCCD: news.mongabay.com/2024/12/land...

I am still in awe by @philpaiement.bsky.social’s powerful inaugural address as Professor of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene at Tilburg Law School. His speech reminded us of the obliteration of Palestinian ecological conditions in Gaza as a result of the Zionist settler colonial project.

Great discussion at Tilburg law on public interest law this afternoon. With Jeff Handmaker, Arpitha Kodiveri, @martamorvillo.bsky.social , @juanauz.bsky.social , Kris van der Pas, Christina Eckes, Clara Kammeringer, Thalia Viveros.

One of the most comprehensive studies available finds that in 2015 alone the imperial core appropriated $10 trillion from the periphery. Now, at COP29, imperial powers are promising to provide just $250bn in climate financing by 2035. That's a 40th of what was taken in that single year.

It was lovely to bring the Inter-American Human Rights approaches to the climate emergency in Utrecht. Thanks to the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research and its Working Group on Human Rights and the Climate Crisis for having me 😊

If you work or are interested in climate litigation globally, consider joining or inviting people to this starter pack, Maria Antonia has kindly put together ❤️‍🔥

Need this, for the form. And also I love Free Gifts’ work.

Eating a German Vollkorn Bread and I need to add it as an agenda item for COP of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

Good morning. Your reminder to drink more water, moisturise, don’t stop talking about Lebanon and Gaza, and as always: free Palestine

The nature of capital, that is.

Being back in Madrid for a deep dive into ecological justice from different perspectives was fantastic. I talked about earth system law in the capitalocene, and the discussion with esteemed friends and colleagues didn’t disappoint 😌

Representatives of 12 European countries, the United States and the Ottoman Empire met to agree the rules for their conquest and colonisation of Africa in Berlin on this day in 1884. With a map of Africa hanging on the wall, the men divided up the continent among themselves.

My reaction to the Shell v Milieudefensie decision from the court of appeals has been published on the Verfassungsblog.

One of the many contributions the Planetary Boundaries framing offers is a visualisation of complexity, including this gorgeous illustration demonstrating the Herculean ambition required to stay within a safe and just planetary operating space.

Real talk: These maritime BDS actions—from Oakland protestors blocking ports, to Barcelona’s dockworkers refusing to load military arms, to Malaysia banning Israeli ships—are some of the most riveting acts of solidarity I’ve seen during a genocide most Western governments can’t even name.

Happy to be at 'The New Institute' in Hamburg to share ideas with esteemed colleagues about trivial things like governing the planetary commons.

The ‘Global Tipping Points Report’: 5 tipping systems currently at risk, 3 more at risk with global warming breaching 1.5°C. Tipping points pose some of the biggest risks to our planet’s life-support systems and the stability of our societies. “This report is the most comprehensive review to date”